People living in Germany are
the most worried about climate change, according to new analysis of 18 countries published this week.
If that's the case for the sector of society
most worried about climate change, it gets harder to justify attacks on debate moderators for failing to squeeze it in, no matter what you or I think.
Not exact matches
I differ, asserting, as I did here the other day, that those
most worried about global warming are already energetically opposed to Trump, while
climate change remains a «meh» issue for middle - of - the - road Americans.
If natural causes can explain
most climate change, why do we need to
worry about the uncertainty hypothesis?
Although we all know the facts;
most people do not think
climate change is anything to
worry about; believe that their governments will take care of things; or that international agreement on emissions reductions will be effective.
What
worries you
most about climate change?
The core of the issue that I
worry most about, as do others, is that arguments for action on
climate change that evoke only one particular vision of the future will reflect only the priorities and values of certain parties, rather than a broad, pragmatic set of choices designed to both effectively manage the problem of
climate change and align a diversity of political interests in support of policy action.
This approach to policy may leave those who
worry most about climate change cold.
Sub-Saharan Africans voice similar levels of
worry about drought — 59 % cite it as the
most concerning potential effect of global
climate change.
Of these 18 countries, it found Germans are the
most concerned, with 44 % «very or «extremely»
worried about climate change.
Russia, meanwhile, had the
most respondents who say they thought
climate change was not happening (15 %), roughly equivalent to the number very or extremely
worried about climate change (16 %).
It is intellectually dishonest to devote several pages to cherry - picking studies that disagree with the IPCC consensus on net health effects because you don't like its scientific conclusion, while then devoting several pages to hiding behind [a misstatement of] the U.N. consensus on sea level rise because you know a lot reasonable people think the U.N. wildly underestimated the upper end of the range and you want to attack Al Gore for
worrying about 20 - foot sea level rise.On this blog, I have tried to be clear what I believe with my earlier three - part series: Since sea level, arctic ice, and
most other
climate change indicators have been
changing faster than
most IPCC models projected and since the IPCC neglects key amplifying carbon cycle feedbacks, the IPCC reports almost certainly underestimate future
climate impacts.
The
most recent polling data from Gallup shows the number of Americans who
worry «a great deal»
about climate change is down slightly on thirty years ago, while the number who
worry «not at all» has doubled from 12 per cent to 24 per cent — and now exceeds the number who
worry «only a little» or «a fair amount».
To be sure,
most are vaguely
worried about climate change, but only as long as a drought or a heat - wave lasts.
When you couple that requirement to the poll results in # 233, where
about half the American respondents don't even EXPRESS the
most minimal commitment to ameliorating
climate change,
WORRYING about it, then there is infinitesimal chance we will even approach anything near 2 C.
The
most alarming part of the report says that only 11 percent of Americans are «very
worried»
about climate change and its effects to the environment.